about charlie alice raya

I’ll take more time for it in the upcoming weeks. There is some of the same and more content on my website: https://www.easy-town-books.com/charlie-alice-raya-about-the-author/

Eventually this website will have the most detailed info, and the books website will focus on the author in me.

I’m still recovering and only allowed small steps. So, thank you for you patience. Charlie Alice Raya

About Charlie Alice Raya

explorer, visionary, thinker, author and photographer

A brief intro

Born in Berlin, 1972, non-binary, business studies with a focus on finance and investment, and some economics.

In 2010, photography took centre stage in my freelance work, and at the end of 2012 I included web design. 2012 was also the year in which the idea for the initial easy town project materialised.

In autumn 2019, I decided to focus on the easy town books, and in summer 2021 I picked up my artistic photographic work again in support of the easy town projects.

February 2022-August 2024

2022 saw me building nine websites to give some of the easy town ideas space for a detailed introductions. The same year, I accidentally wrote the dot.story and did some nine or more additional photo series.

After launching the websites towards the end of October 2023, I was absolutely convinced that with a few emails and letters, the projects would soon get all the attention they deserve. Not so. Unfortunately, I was so on overdrive by that time that I couldn’t stop working. But I could stop fretting, and so I allowed myself to write book 3, shaping. I’ll be honest, I made the most of it and kept pushing the date when I would continue to make my work known. And then finally my body rebelled in mid-February, I had a brief upwards time, four weeks in March/April and then after a shoulder injury (while working in bed), my body had enough and went on strike, and I couldn’t work any more.

On top of that, I got an early stage breast cancer diagnosis, at the end of July, and had a double mastectomy at the end of October. Luckily, I’m very happy to be breastless (more on the upcoming website: www.breastless.net).

The 10th August 2024, the eighth year anniversary of the easy town story, was the day of my first small step back into getting my work out there.

Despite all of this, I’m coming back with a bag full of additional material: book 3, shaping is close to being completed, book 4/1, building is making great progress and will be a fun blueprint for campaigning for our future, the end of all wars is likely to be published in the next few weeks, and then there are the new websites for the next steps of doing my bit for humanity and the planet.

My main objectives

I’m not sure this list is fully up to date, but for the moment, I’ll leave it as it is.

• Write the easy town books (preferably at the locations of the story).
• Set up teams for the project ideas, and support those teams financially.
• Cooperate with artists, scientists, thinkers, craftspeople, researchers, inventors, down-to-earth people, makers, intriguing business people and politicians, and others who like to dig deeper and rethink– well, everything.

Some more insights

Origin: a Berliner who doesn’t do nationalities but acknowledges European roots

Growing up: on both sides of the Berlin Wall

Education: studies in business and economics, in Berlin (HWR) and Bristol (UWE)

Title of my thesis: The Wealth of Nations by Globalisation? An Inquiry into the Positive and Negative Potentials of the Globalisation Process by Assessing the Free Trade Theory Critically

Jobs: Still a student, I took a look at the theatre world and brought Familie Floez to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2001. After graduation, I did business jobs, wrote, filmed and worked for TV and film in assistant jobs. Then I deciding to take a less crowded road to focus on my own ideas. I partly financed my explorations through photography and web design.